GREENSBORO, N.C. – The morning of October 2, 2017 is one Minerva Cisneros García will never forget.

After living in Sanctuary at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Greensboro for nearly 100 days, she received the news that a federal judge in Texas ruled that her removal order is vacated. She was finally free to leave Sanctuary.

Cisneros García went into Sanctuary on June 28, 2017, the day before she was ordered to leave the country.

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17 years ago, she entered the crossed the Mexican border to give her sons a better life and settled in Winston-Salem.

Eduardo, 21, the oldest of the three, is blind. He is a DACA beneficiary, while her younger sons, Antonio, 6, and Matteo, 3, are U.S. citizens from birth.